Tara Murray
Gelling a new team together is hard enough, let alone if you’ve got a number of injuries like the Hume City Broncos.
With just two players from last season returning for this year’s Big V men’s state championship, the Broncos are learning on the go,
Broncos coach Matt Foster said there had been some challenges early in the season.
“We are banged up a bit,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of new team members and we’re trying to figure each other out.
“We are working out what is best for us, but we were missing three players on the weekend.
“It doesn’t help when trying to figure out rotations and what sort of style that suits us.”
Recruits Trevon Clayton and Carlo Camp both missed the weekend’s match against Western Port, which the Broncos won on the buzzer.
Foster said with a lot of sides having changed their lines up this season things that had previously worked might not.
With the changes has brought the competition closer.
“There’s been some teams that have had really good starts and then there’s results that you do not expect,” he said.
“You’ll have a good quality quarter and then one average quarter and sometimes the other way round.”
Despite the challenges, the Broncos still have four wins from their six matches.
Foster said they were still to hit their straps.
“It’s good to get some wins on the board,” he said. “We’ve got four wins in a row now.
“We’re not super happy with how we want to play. We’re not playing well and still getting wins, that is a bonus.”
The Broncos this week face local rival the Sunbury Jets on Sunday at Boardman Stadium.
The Jets sit in fifth spot, on the same record as the Broncos.
“We’ve played them about 12 times in recent years,” Foster said. “It will be fun and they have a couple of coaches with a Broncos background.”
